Solar Lottery
$27.30
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2003
Summary
The operating principle was random selection: positions of public power were decided by a sophisticated lottery. Everyone had a chance, everyone could live in hope that they would be chosen to be the boss, the Quizmaster. But with the power came the game, the assassination game, which everyone could watch on TV. Would the new man be good enough to avoid his chosen killer? Which made for fascinating and exciting viewing, compelling enough to distract the public’s attention while the Big Five industrial complexes run the world, the solar system and the people, unnoticed and completely unopposed. Then, in 2203, with the choice of a member of a maverick cult as Quizmaster, the system developed a little hitch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780575074552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0575074558 |
| Author: | Philip K. Dick |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Gollancz |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 128mm x 198mm |
| Series: | Gollancz S.F. |
| Audience Age: | 16 |
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Philip K. Dick
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) was born in Chicago but lived in California for most of his life. He went to college at Berkeley for a year, ran a record store and had his own classical-music show on a local radio station. He published his first short story, Beyond Lies the Wub in 1952. Among his many fine novels are The Man in the High Castle, Time Out of Joint, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said.
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